Anguish To Evade

Anguish To Evade

Anguish – Owl – in eye

Stares, piercing the gloom,

Sunset downfall dies,

With despair bride and groom.

Stealthy predators’ steps

All behind back are heard:

Foliage, myriads rags,

Old Witch’s whispering words…

“Hope” hissed is by Hype,

Pulling waters in veins,

 Boredom, bearing bribe,

Tries of flattering means,

Coiling Cobra of cold

Squeezes Neck’s loin acute,

Raise Redemption is rogued –

Blood of slain to dilute…

As if reptiled in mud’s

All that soared in Light:

Ends be here to cut

And Beginnings to grind.

But remember of Dawn –

Live by memory, wait:

Rise of Hope postponed

Don’t try to evade!..